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Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Headlines
Baseball hopes to extend streak
The No. 5 ranked and Six-Pac leading USC baseball team hopes to extend its 13-game winning streak today at Cal State Northridge in a game that begins at 2:30 p.m.
Sports, page 16
Looking back at system’s flaws
Guest columnist Andre Beckles, who will be leaving USC for a historically black college next Fall, criticizes the institutions he has seen as merely continuing trends of ignorance.
Viewpoint, page 4
String quartet to play Bovard
The Uptown String Quartet will perform tonight at 7 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium. With classical music backgrounds and string training, these women devote themselves to all styles of music of the African-American cultural heritage. USC students are free witn ID, faculty and staff $10, general public $15.
• • •
The USC Small Business Development Office and USC Purchasing Services will host the fifth annual Small Business Networking Event on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Alumni Park. After a continental breakfast, a series of work* shops will address such topics as business management and accessing capital. The general admission fee is $20; $100 for exhibitors at the tTade fair. For more information or to register firms, call (213) 740-9783.
Follow the sirens
Troy Witt/ Dally Trojan
Fire trucks roared to Pardee Tower on Tuesday afternoon as they responded to the first of two calls that day, which LAFD firefighters stated were false alarms.
Senate supports Local 11 workers’ cause
“We’re beginning to care about the people who are affected by this university as opposed to just ourselves as students.”
— Cesar Lopez
By Richard Cordova
Staff Writer
The Student Senate passed a resolution supporting housing and food services employees in their negotiations with the university to keep as many as 100 from being laid off for the summer months.
The resolution, which passed at the last meeting by a 12-3 vote, declares that "by engaging in a massive summer lay-off, the University will lower the living standards of many local residents, families, and children."
It further "demand(s) that the University find a resolution to this labor dispute that respects the interests of the children and families of our local community by maintaining year-round employment for tne University's service employees."
Negotiations with the university scheduled for Tuesday were cancelled because of an administrator's illness, said Maria Elena Durazo, president of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union Local 11, which represents the employees.
Talks are scheduled to resume
next Tuesday, but Durazo was not optimistic.
The union plans a march on campus tomorrow afternoon, she said.
"All the proposals the university has made have to do with taking away the rights the workers have now," she said.
"For the largest employer in the city to resort to just cheap labor sets a very bad example. Along with that comes the responsibility of providing some decent jobs."
Housing Services administrators could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Cesar Lopez, academic affairs chairperson of Student Senate and co-author of the resolution, said students he has spoken to were supportive.
"They recognize the necessity of the job these workers do . . . they impact us in our everyday lives," he said. "This doesn't come down to supporting unions per se . . . We're beginning to care about the people who are affected by this university as opposed to just ourselves as students."
Lopez said Student Senate had no plans for further action in support of the union.
On the same day the resolution was passed, about 100 peo-
Kle gathered in Hoffman Hall to ear Dolores Huerta, co-founder and vice president of the United Farm Workers, Lopez said.
Regarding the food and housing employees, Huerta "was in support of the workers . . . she talked about how the people
need to be united," he said.
"We know they're not all going to be working, but we'd like to see as few layoffs as possible," Durazo said.
In the summer, 90 to 100 Dining Services workers are laid off out of a combined total of 325 dining and housing employees, Durazo said.
Last year, however, for the first time, the university subcontracted to outside companies employing non-union workers to clean the residence halls during the summer.
Durazo would like to see that work reassigned to the union workers who would otherwise be laid off.
"State law prohibits employees of educational institutions from collecting unemployment for defined term breaks/' Durazo said.
This left the workers with no income for those summer months, she said.
Whoever was fortunate enough to get another job for the summer probably earned about half their regular wage, Durazo said.
"The Underneath," the latest release from director Steven Soderbergh, is a story of lost love and stolen money. Though the film starts with a solid premise, Tim Grierson tells how it ultimately falls apart.
Diversions, page 7
Wednesday April 26,1995 Vol. CXXIV, No. 66
‘Underneath’ lies below expectation
Drinking on the upswing
Jeniffer Lin
Staff Writer
Sixty-eight percent of college freshmen attending schools, including USC, where dnnking is a
Eart of campus life, have gone on a drinking binge y the end of their first semester, confirms a recent study conducted by researchers at the Harvard University School of Public Health.
This was the team's second study designed to examine freshman drinking habits in heavy-drinking schools. A school was considered "heavy-drinking" if more than half of the students were found to be binge drinkers.
"We anticipated they would drink a lot," said Dr. Henry Wechsler, the leading researcher in the study, "but these findings surprised even us."
Researchers discovered that 54 percent of freshmen went on drinking binges — downing at least four or five drinks in a row — in their first week at school.
The first study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and sampled 17,592 students at 140 colleges in 40 states. The new study involved 720 freshmen at 13 schools. Although the researchers have chosen not to release the names of the schools sampled, USC has been confirmed as one of the participants in the study.
Wechsler found that size of the student body as a whole was not a major factor in determining drinking patterns among freshmen; however, the size of the Greek system played an important role.
"People who live in a fraternity or a sorority house were the highest group of binge drinkers," Wechsler said. "Members who don't live in the houses were also high."
At USC, GAMMA — Greeks Advocating the Mature Mangement of Alcohol — was established this month. This national organization works to educate Greeks beginning at tne freshman level to promote responsible drinking.
"Drinking has always been a concern for colleges," said Tony Castelli, director of GAMMA. "Students are going to drink no matter what, especially when you have a group of people that live together who have a strong brotherhood."
Castelli feels that education is the best solution
(See Binge, page 3)

Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Headlines
Baseball hopes to extend streak
The No. 5 ranked and Six-Pac leading USC baseball team hopes to extend its 13-game winning streak today at Cal State Northridge in a game that begins at 2:30 p.m.
Sports, page 16
Looking back at system’s flaws
Guest columnist Andre Beckles, who will be leaving USC for a historically black college next Fall, criticizes the institutions he has seen as merely continuing trends of ignorance.
Viewpoint, page 4
String quartet to play Bovard
The Uptown String Quartet will perform tonight at 7 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium. With classical music backgrounds and string training, these women devote themselves to all styles of music of the African-American cultural heritage. USC students are free witn ID, faculty and staff $10, general public $15.
• • •
The USC Small Business Development Office and USC Purchasing Services will host the fifth annual Small Business Networking Event on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Alumni Park. After a continental breakfast, a series of work* shops will address such topics as business management and accessing capital. The general admission fee is $20; $100 for exhibitors at the tTade fair. For more information or to register firms, call (213) 740-9783.
Follow the sirens
Troy Witt/ Dally Trojan
Fire trucks roared to Pardee Tower on Tuesday afternoon as they responded to the first of two calls that day, which LAFD firefighters stated were false alarms.
Senate supports Local 11 workers’ cause
“We’re beginning to care about the people who are affected by this university as opposed to just ourselves as students.”
— Cesar Lopez
By Richard Cordova
Staff Writer
The Student Senate passed a resolution supporting housing and food services employees in their negotiations with the university to keep as many as 100 from being laid off for the summer months.
The resolution, which passed at the last meeting by a 12-3 vote, declares that "by engaging in a massive summer lay-off, the University will lower the living standards of many local residents, families, and children."
It further "demand(s) that the University find a resolution to this labor dispute that respects the interests of the children and families of our local community by maintaining year-round employment for tne University's service employees."
Negotiations with the university scheduled for Tuesday were cancelled because of an administrator's illness, said Maria Elena Durazo, president of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union Local 11, which represents the employees.
Talks are scheduled to resume
next Tuesday, but Durazo was not optimistic.
The union plans a march on campus tomorrow afternoon, she said.
"All the proposals the university has made have to do with taking away the rights the workers have now," she said.
"For the largest employer in the city to resort to just cheap labor sets a very bad example. Along with that comes the responsibility of providing some decent jobs."
Housing Services administrators could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Cesar Lopez, academic affairs chairperson of Student Senate and co-author of the resolution, said students he has spoken to were supportive.
"They recognize the necessity of the job these workers do . . . they impact us in our everyday lives," he said. "This doesn't come down to supporting unions per se . . . We're beginning to care about the people who are affected by this university as opposed to just ourselves as students."
Lopez said Student Senate had no plans for further action in support of the union.
On the same day the resolution was passed, about 100 peo-
Kle gathered in Hoffman Hall to ear Dolores Huerta, co-founder and vice president of the United Farm Workers, Lopez said.
Regarding the food and housing employees, Huerta "was in support of the workers . . . she talked about how the people
need to be united," he said.
"We know they're not all going to be working, but we'd like to see as few layoffs as possible," Durazo said.
In the summer, 90 to 100 Dining Services workers are laid off out of a combined total of 325 dining and housing employees, Durazo said.
Last year, however, for the first time, the university subcontracted to outside companies employing non-union workers to clean the residence halls during the summer.
Durazo would like to see that work reassigned to the union workers who would otherwise be laid off.
"State law prohibits employees of educational institutions from collecting unemployment for defined term breaks/' Durazo said.
This left the workers with no income for those summer months, she said.
Whoever was fortunate enough to get another job for the summer probably earned about half their regular wage, Durazo said.
"The Underneath," the latest release from director Steven Soderbergh, is a story of lost love and stolen money. Though the film starts with a solid premise, Tim Grierson tells how it ultimately falls apart.
Diversions, page 7
Wednesday April 26,1995 Vol. CXXIV, No. 66
‘Underneath’ lies below expectation
Drinking on the upswing
Jeniffer Lin
Staff Writer
Sixty-eight percent of college freshmen attending schools, including USC, where dnnking is a
Eart of campus life, have gone on a drinking binge y the end of their first semester, confirms a recent study conducted by researchers at the Harvard University School of Public Health.
This was the team's second study designed to examine freshman drinking habits in heavy-drinking schools. A school was considered "heavy-drinking" if more than half of the students were found to be binge drinkers.
"We anticipated they would drink a lot," said Dr. Henry Wechsler, the leading researcher in the study, "but these findings surprised even us."
Researchers discovered that 54 percent of freshmen went on drinking binges — downing at least four or five drinks in a row — in their first week at school.
The first study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and sampled 17,592 students at 140 colleges in 40 states. The new study involved 720 freshmen at 13 schools. Although the researchers have chosen not to release the names of the schools sampled, USC has been confirmed as one of the participants in the study.
Wechsler found that size of the student body as a whole was not a major factor in determining drinking patterns among freshmen; however, the size of the Greek system played an important role.
"People who live in a fraternity or a sorority house were the highest group of binge drinkers," Wechsler said. "Members who don't live in the houses were also high."
At USC, GAMMA — Greeks Advocating the Mature Mangement of Alcohol — was established this month. This national organization works to educate Greeks beginning at tne freshman level to promote responsible drinking.
"Drinking has always been a concern for colleges," said Tony Castelli, director of GAMMA. "Students are going to drink no matter what, especially when you have a group of people that live together who have a strong brotherhood."
Castelli feels that education is the best solution
(See Binge, page 3)